Elmer Wilcox (1900-1982) was born on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. He loved his home, and spent many hours photographing its birds, flowers, and unique rock formations. Around 1962, Elmer and L. Keith Ingersoll (d. 1993) began a collection of natural history materials. Together they were the force behind the building of the Grand Manan Museum in 1967 to display their collections. Both men held positions on the Museum Board and worked in the museum on displays.

The collection continues to grow as articles are donated by curators, archivists, and board members as new research is published.

Lydia Wilcox was born August 8, 1933. She was raised on a small island - Wood Island - in the Grand Manan Archipelago, in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. She moved off Wood Island between 1950-1954. She married Herbert Parker in 1954. They had four children. Herbert died young and Lydia never remarried. She focused her life on taking care of her children and helping others. Lydia wrote children's books in her senior years which depict life growing up on a small island.

Don Wilcox (1910-1967) was the son of Caswell and Nellie Schofield Wilcox. He lived on Wood Island and in Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island, both in New Brunswick. Don married Myrtle Nelson Anderson (1900-1976), widow of Bartol Anderson. She had two sons from her previous marriage, Nelson and Gerald, who are listed in the Wood Island School register.

Don was the youngest of nine children. His brothers Archer and Leland (Lee) became locally famous for writing songs and poetry. Don's uncle Hiram Wilcox was also a poet. The family recorded many of the interesting adventures of their lives and some of these stories are in this collection.

Richard Wilbur was born in Montreal in 1926 and maintained a dual career as a teacher of Canadian History and a freelance journalist. He taught history at the Arcadian Academic for 9 years and then after moving to St Andrews taught in Saint John. For 25 years he was a freelance writer which included writing a newspaper column on the Fisheries. He also worked for the CBC newsroom for 4 years, which took him to Toronto, the West Coast and Halifax.

His books include The Rise of the French New Brunswick, The Silver Harvest and The Fundy Weir Men Story, which won the Canadian Historical Association Regional Certificate.
Richard Humphrey Wilbur died on March 31, 2016

The house at 331 Brandy Cove Road, St. Andrews was built in 1945 for Blair Gordon and his family. It was designed by H. Ross Wiggs, an architect from Montreal, Quebec. It was originally called the Elbow Bend and remained in the Gordon family until 2003 when it was sold to Mr. & Mrs. Ball.

Upon the sale of the home, Mr. Christopher Gordon who had grown up in the house, built for his mother and father, passed all documents and photographs regarding the family home to the new owners. Extensive work has taken place and the home has changed since new ownership.

Susan Anna Gunhilda Wiggins was born on 6th April 1846 at Waterborough, Queens County, New Brunswick. She was educated by private tutors, and married E. Stone Wiggins at age sixteen. While living with her husband in Ottawa, Susie Wiggins became embroiled in a dispute with the Anglican Lord Bishop of Ontario over his stated objection to the passage of a measure in Parliament legalizing marriage to a deceased wife's sister. Using the pseudonym Gunhilda, she published letters in the press attacking Archbishop Lewis' position, which attracted widespread attention. She also spoke before a senate committee to urge passage of the bill which eventually became law. She died in 1923.

Sources: Wiggins, E. Stone, The History of Queens County; Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, entries for Ezekiel Stone Wiggins and Susan Wiggins

Author, teacher and civil servant Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, son of Daniel Wiggins and Elizabeth Titus Stone, was born 4th December 1839 at Grand Lake, Queens County, New Brunswick. Educated at Oakwood Grammar School and at Victoria College, he later received a medical degree from Philadelphia University. E. Stone Wiggins served as principal of several Ontario schools and was the first Principal of the Institute for the Education of the Blind at Brantford, Ontario. On 2nd August 1862, he married his first cousin Susan Anna Gunhilda Wiggins.

In 1874 E. Stone Wiggins relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick, where he founded the Church of England Boys' College. He also wrote The History of Queens County (1876), which was published in theWatchman (Saint John). In 1878, he offered himself as a candidate in the dominion election. Although he lost the seat, he was appointed to a permanent civil service position in the Department of Finance headed by Samuel Leonard Tilley.

E. Stone Wiggins was active in Ottawa intellectual circles. He published Architecture of the Heavens (1864), a work about natural phenomena, and later The Days of the Creation. He died on 14th August 1910.

Sources: Wiggins, E. Stone, The History of Queens County; Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, entries for Ezekiel Stone Wiggins and Susan Wiggins

Charles Corey Wiggins was born in 1863, probably in York County, New Brunswick. He married Alice Adelaide Price in the 1880s, and they made their home at Wiggins Mills, near Upper Hainesville[Haynesville], Queensbury Parish, York County, New Brunswick. Charles and Alice Wiggins had at least 6 children, including Alice Beatrice (b. 1888), Cecil William (b. 1891), Effie M. (b. 1892), Ernest Edward (b. 1905), (? daughter) Wiggins (b. 1908), and John (b. ca. 1890), who died in infancy. Charles Wiggins farmed, ran a blacksmith shop, and operated a sawmill or shingle mill. In 1913 he applied for a patent for wood sawing machines, which was issued on 28 April 1914. Charles Corey Wiggins died on 31 December 1940 and was buried in Upper Caverhill Cemetery, York County.

The Wiggins Male Orphan Institution was founded and endowed by Stephen Wiggins, a prominent Saint John merchant. Incorporated in 1867, the Home, located on St. James Street, opened in 1876. Although severely damaged in the fire of 1877, it was rebuilt on the same site. In 1922, the Wiggins Institution moved to a house on Mount Pleasant Avenue where it remained until a new Home was constructed, in 1965, on Hawthorne Avenue.

II. The Wiggins Male Orphan Institution, later known as the Stephen Wiggins Home for Boys, was established to care for male orphan and destitute male fatherless children born in Saint John County. In 1895 the Home's sphere of responsibility was extended to the entire province. The Stephen Wiggins Home for Boys was closed in 1982.